Newbie training question

Hi all



I started training for my triathlon about 3 months ago, I am doing the Stirling Novice Try-a-tri and the Ayr Open water Sprint triathlons this year.



Untill 3 weeks ago I was training indoors on the treadmill and on the bike - everything was fine. I ran my 5-6k and biked my 20-30k. I've never had any problems with impact based training before, but all of a sudden my quads just went during the run when I moved to running outside. The pain was unbareable both when running and when resting. My legs were in absolute agony.[:(]

I went to the physio who told me I don't stretch enough, and it had to be that because my legs/knees were fine. Ok admitted I am not very good at remembering to do that. So I started stretching properly about 2 weeks ago, now my quads seem fine, but the pain has moved to my hip flexor. Some days I feel nothing and other days it can be incredibly painful to get from a sitting position to standing. When I've walked around for a while the pain dissapears though. Running on the other hand seems to be quite hard, the impact can hurt real bad and it sorts feels like I cannot lift my legs properly.

The funny thing about this is that if I only do my running workout and nothing else my legs will be in intense pain, but if I add in my bikeleg then my legs seem to cope alot better and I feel alot less pain in my hip flexors.



Any thoughts would be very appriciated.



Thanks alot [:D]